Providing faster body MR imaging without jeopardizing quality can have a significant impact on patient satisfaction and MR workflow efficiency — while still providing important clinical information.One of the simplest ways to make the exam faster and more acceptable to patients is to shorten the breath hold. That’s precisely what technologists and radiologists at Mt. Sinai are doing with Caipirinha, a unique parallel imaging acquisition technique that can cut breath holds for 3DT1 exams in half without impacting image resolution, coverage, or contrast.The result has been dramatic. “Moving from about 20 seconds to 8 seconds is a major change in breath hold. It’s important for people who are very sick, like chronic liver disease patients, or for pediatric patients,” said Bachir Taouli, MD, professor of radiology at Mt. Sinai.See the clinical difference for yourself in Mt. Sinai’s body MR images.
With a new microbeam emitter developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC, microbeam technology has been scaled down, opening the doors for clinical research.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, both in the developed and the developing world. Early detection of breast cancer, either by hand or by using mammography screening, is one of the best methods to improve survival rate.
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Intelerad Medical Systems, a medical imaging picture archiving and communication system (PACS), radiology information system (RIS) and workflow solutions company, announced that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected IntelePACS as the PACS for their National Teleradiology Program (NTP).
For patients who fail to respond to current first-line and second-line treatments for colorectal cancer liver metastases (also known as salvage patients), radioembolization with Y-90 microspheres could extend survival according to new research published in the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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Many healthcare systems are finding their general PACS and cardiology PACS are both aging and their image storage is reaching capacity. How do the diagnostic imaging departments address the needs of their cardiologists and radiologists?
Hospital La Fe, a clinical collaborator of Nucletron, an Elekta company, is nearing the conclusion of the enrollment phase of a clinical study with the Esteya electronic brachytherapy system for treating skin cancer.
A rural community hospital located in northeast Oregon, Good Shepherd Medical Center is a busy 49-bed facility that serves the town of Hermiston and its surrounding communities.Given their rural location, Good Shepherd is a heavy transfer facility located near the junction of two state highways and often the first stop for trauma patients from traffic accidents in the area. These patients, along with those who require specialized treatment or care for extended periods, are often transferred to larger facilities in Washington or Portland. For this reason, Good Shepherd required a solution that easily transferred images across multiple locations. With its Web-based, distributed architecture, Intelerad was able to meet the needs of the hospital, deploying its IntelePACS and InteleViewer solutions back in 2002.With only one radiologist on staff at a time, diagnostic imaging staff must work as efficiently as possible to ensure patients receive the highest levels of care. To enhance productivity, Good Shepherd integrated IntelePACS with PowerScribe 360, Nuance’s dynamic radiology reporting and communication platform.“The integration has dramatically cut down our turnaround time,” said Ann Richards, Good Shepherd’s HIS analyst and PACS administrator. “Whereas it formerly took anywhere between 12 to 24 hours to deliver a report, radiologists’ average turnaround time over the course of a week has been five and a half minutes. It’s been a dramatic reduction.”
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Guerbet announced that Novation, a health care supply chain expertise, analytics and contracting company, awarded an agreement for Dotarem (gadoterate meglumine) Injection.
RamSoft is exapnding its product line by offering PowerServer Nube, a Spanish-language hosted platform RIS/PACS for Latin America. PowerServer Nube will allow RamSoft to service markets in Latin America that have previously found RIS/PACS solutions to be cost prohibitive due to having to purchase multiple servers to run disparate software.
The RSNA FastPass is produced by Imaging Technology News (ITN) as a guide to what vendors are highlighting. It helps attendees better navigate the vast technical exhibit floor to find what they are looking for.
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As health IT leaders make their way to New York for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) Digital Health Conference, Practice Fusion, the nation's largest healthcare platform, is looking at the key healthcare trend from 2013 and predicts what they might mean looking forward.
Accuray Inc. announced the publication of two papers stemming from a large multi-center study of CyberKnife stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) led by investigators at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Royal Philips Electronics and Sectra announced an agreement to extend the term of their existing picture archiving and communication system (PACS) support partnership agreement.
DICOM Grid, a provider of cloud-based medical image exchange solutions, announced the world-wide availability of DG Revenue Engine, a service designed to turbo-charge patient portals for second opinions.
Clear Image Devices LLC (CiD) announced the release of its step platform to be used for standing patient ultrasound venous insufficiency studies. The Ultrasound Exam Steps enable sonographers to place the patient in the optimal position for safe, easy capture of the highest quality venous images of the upper and lower leg.
The Chinese market for X-ray equipment will grow 50 percent from 2012 levels to reach more than $1.5 billion by 2017, according to a new report from HIS.
To help reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease, the nation's leading killer, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College have created the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging. Raymond T. Dalio, a life trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, has made a gift of $20 million through his Dalio Foundation in support of the institute.
Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) vendor DR Systems will exhibit new capabilities designed to increase the quality and efficiency of patient services at the Radiological Society of North American Annual Meeting (RSNA) 2013.